Olivia D. Salamanca on Stamps
Salamanca earned her degree from theWomen's Medical College in Pennsylvania in 1910, making her the second Filipina to earn a medical degree from the U.S. She became the secretary of the Philippine Anti-Tuberculosis Society where she wrote its constitution and by-laws. She died shortly after that at the age of 24, of tuberculosis. Olivia Salamanca (1889-1913) was a pioneer of her profession. Olivia Simeona Demetria Salamanca y Diaz was the second child of a well-to-do couple, Jose Salamanca, a colonel in the Philippine Revolutionary Forces, a pharmacist, and a signer of the Malolos Constitution, and Cresencia Diaz. Olivia was born on July 1,1889 in San Roque, Cavite where she spent her childhood. She obtained her early education is a private school in Cebu where her father worked as a pharmacist. When the family returned to Cavite, Olivia studied in the Colegio de la Sagrada Familia in Cavite City and later at the Cavite High School where she completed the first two years of the ...